Food Fight
I have a friend who calls me for moral support everytime he goes to the grocery store. Me: “What’s going on now?” Him: “NO WAY this is happening! A woman in front of me has a coupon for EVERY item!”
How about (even when there are employees nearby who can operate a register), they MAKE you use the self checkout…and you have produce! I’m not trained in the codes and scales and such!Â
I know I’ve thrown this topic out there before, but something tells me it’s time to head back to the store.Â
May 31st, 2008 at 9:58 am
I hate it when people write checks. That takes forever. Get a card.
Also, they make a small radio frequency tag that could be placed on each item instead of a bar code. With this, you could just pass your cart through a scanner and leave. Nobody is doing it yet, but the technology is there.
May 31st, 2008 at 11:24 am
How great would that be! I’d pay the extra in gasoline to drive to that store.
May 31st, 2008 at 11:27 am
lardasses in electric carts blocking the aisle while they peruse the cookies. “go on dammit, i know your getting double stuff oreos”
getting caught by friends when i check out the “reduced price” meats about to go out of date. im not cheap but i am thrifty!
asshats who get almost thru checking out and remember they need to go to the furtherest point in the store to get something they forgot.
moron who has a out of date coupon. Clerk: “im sorry but your coupon for smedleys possum dip expired in 1988.”
old ladies who smell like they drenched themselves in avon, and younger ones who smell like they drenched themselves in eau de’ keithville. pass by one of these in the produce aisle and the rest of the day is screwed.
old guys (i am one, but dont do this) who flirt with the 19 year old clerk. dude….they talk to you because they have to, trust me…your not attractive to them.
the over eager assistaint manager who cheerfully asks: “you finding everything you need?”
“well duh….my friggin cart is piled to the top with stuff, im guessing i am.”
lastly…..buying nice steaks for romantic dinner, buying good wine for romantic dinner, buying flowers to dazzle girlfriend at romantic dinner, getting call on cellphone from girlfriend asking me to please pick up tampax.
May 31st, 2008 at 2:06 pm
I’m not sure I can go out anymore and be in the shopping scene. It’s now so horrible I’ve almost broke down in line and started crying.
May 31st, 2008 at 3:54 pm
I’ve been shopping with Ron and it’s not pretty. It almost came to blows at Sams when a woman and her entourage were buying food for them, their friends, her church and God knows who else and all writing checks!
May 31st, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Publix has these obnoxious NASCAR shopping carts to keep little kids entertained I guess. They are basically standard shopping carts with a thick plastic shell around them to make the cart look like a big gay race car. They are also a good foot wider and longer than a standard cart. When two ladies stop to chat in the isle, each pushing one of these enormous monstrosities, the whole isle is blocked. Usually this occurs while a little kid is in one of the carts repeatedly screaming at the top of his lungs that he wants some high fructose frosted dingleberrys or something. And the Moms just keep talking and tune them out like it’s no big deal. I would pay more for an adults only grocery store.
Whole Foods is by far my favorite place to shop, it seems to have a much calmer vibe and the produce is great too.
May 31st, 2008 at 5:55 pm
HRB- I’m so with you on the check writing thing! I break out in a cold sweat and forget my name when I see someone whip out their checkbook at the store! It’s an automatic physcial reaction! Okay I’m being a little dramatic, but ya get what I’m tryin to say.
Ha!
May 31st, 2008 at 7:02 pm
A good list of annoyances so far. One more that is getting to me is the flat screen monitors that play commercials on every isle. Some isles have two or more. I have gone into roid rage on several occations and punched out the screen. So far I haven’t been arrested.
June 1st, 2008 at 12:32 am
CT/Tommy–lol! I wish we had a Whole Foods.
Mel, rt..remember our episode in Sam’s when I had my cast? We were bound to have gotten on someone’s nerves.
Here’s another annoyance: Loud pages! But, I actually like music over the P.A.
June 1st, 2008 at 9:20 am
ok… we btch-n-moan about groceries, try going to the “market” in most any other country in the world! you have to walk like 5 miles to find everything you are looking for since the vendors sell like one or two products. then run (or walk) in one of these countries at night and all that was fresh produce & meat is now not so fresh and piled along the sidewalk waiting for some clean up truck to pick all this ripe crap up to take to some sort of processing plant or for all you know a sort area where it can be re-sold!
CT, we don’t have a Publix round here but when I have been in them, they have the most incredible wine and beer selection I have ever seen (for a grocery store) which rivals the cigarette isle at any military commissary (which still blows my mind). Way I see it, get trashed then compete with the NASCAR kids and call it “Safe DWI School”. A new concept that can sweep the nation and teach kids about drinking and driving.
agreed - get a card. God Bless Walmart from 2-3am
June 1st, 2008 at 12:38 pm
You’re right, G. We have so much in this country! Thanks for the glance at other parts of the world.
June 1st, 2008 at 3:35 pm
G- 2 to 3 am? Are you sure it’s better?
June 1st, 2008 at 6:21 pm
actually Jody… I only think it is better! I ended up at Walmart round 2-3 this afternoon for dog food a few other things and was tempted to buy a case of Calgon!!!
June 1st, 2008 at 7:19 pm
Oooh. I was at Wal-mart yesterday in the garden center. I just needed a water hose. I was in and could have been out in 10 minutes. But the lady in front of me had a buggy full of crap, needed price checks before she could buy anything. Wow. I was so annoyed. Then she wrote a check also. Good Lord.